Psycho shirts real soon!  I promise!

I might win sometimes, but that doesn’t mean I’m better.  Ha.

I hope Nate sees the humor in this one.

Another frigid winter night.  About 8 degrees.  UGH.  Nate and I wanted to do something different so we drove downtown and parked next to the side entrance to the St Julien parking garage.  We went down the side stairs unnoticed and found a mostly dry cooling parking garage with tons of parking blocks for us to shralp.  I say “cooling parking garage” because it seemed to get colder by the minute.  It started off pretty warm, but by the time we left we could see our breath.  The parking garage was also covered in at least a quarter of an inch of dust.  Yuck.We ended up at a group of oddly arranged blue parking blocks.  You couldn’t really grind or slide them too easily because the ends either ran into puddles or pillars.  But they were fun to try stuff over in lines which we did for awhile.  I can’t remember all that went down at that point, we were mostly just kinda dorking around.  At one point I tried to sw front 180 a puddle then kickflip a parking block that was right after it (by “right after it” I mean 20 feet which isn’t much setup when your old and slow like me) and I got it.  I even pushed switch before the 180.  I think Nate did a nollie shove over one followed by a no comply on another.  He’s got good no complys.  He said it’s the old man 8″ board that allows him to do old man tricks so well.  We settled in on trying stuff over a parking block for awhile.  Nate put down a ton of tricks of course.  Nollie, nollie shove, nollie 180s, 180s, halfcabs both ways and a banger at the end – nollie flip.  I struggled with kickflips, but got some as well as 180s, a sketchy pop shove, sw front 180 and a horrible backside flip.  But it’s definitely the first backside flip I’ve done over something and after the sketchy one I was getting close to doing a good one.  Nate started doing the little dump truck tricks where you ride into a curb and put the nose on then transfer to the other side.  After a couple regular ones he ended up doing all kinds of variations.  180s both ways, shoves both ways and attempts at nollie b/s flip out and more.  It was rad.  I couldn’t do the regular transfer, but after tons of tries I got a nollie back shove transfer.  Felt really fun.  We left the frigid garage after ollieing onto a very narrow sidewalk going down the hill of one of the exit ramps.  SUPER fun and sketchy.  It’s about a foot wide with a wall next so it feels like your going to hang up at any second and go flying.  By the end your going fast.  We both did it first try though and it was a great ender on a fun evening.

Gonz rules.

Ollie had been skating Rampy basically all Saturday and Sunday with his friends. After dinner I decided I should get a little session in and he joined me to show off his new moves. He did lots of halfcab rock fakies, willy grind, fakie ollies, body varial (at the top of the tranny now), fakie b/s pivots, backside slasher grind and started trying back 50s. He never got one, but he was close to back feebles. I was hurting from a rager of a night with the Might LZA and didn’t expect much from myself. I managed a couple front feebles and front tails amongst some other tricks I should be able to do better.

Cold and snowy on a Saturday. UGH! So sick of winter. Anyways I got up kinda early feeling better than the last few days. Ollie had been bugging me for a new deck and showing me his totally chipped deck. I told him he had to land a new trick on Rampy before I’d give him a board. We went out there and he was ripping. He’s done rock ‘n rolls elsewhere, but not Rampy. He did a few of those, learned willy grinds and did a bunch of half cab rocks. Guess he earned the new board. I wasn’t skating too well, but had fun. Got a front feeble or too and came close to hurricanes.Later on we hit Red Curbs. As soon as we got there it seemed much colder than we thought. Not only that, but the snow was blowing in and half the parking lot was wet. Ugh. The crew was Neil, Brian, Cheyenne Matt and the Daggers. Aka a mixture of Satellite/Meta dudes that happened to show up at the same time as us. Jason came and drank coffee, but said it was too cold to skate.Much to Brian’s delight the manny pad was one of the few dry obstacles. I don’t think anyone skated that great. Neil was in a t-shirt and yelling at his skateboard alot. Brian was standing around complaining about the cold. I would have liked to see him land that impossible lipslide. Matt was taking it easy and laying down some casual manuals. The Daggers were ripping. I was getting warmed up about the time we left. I’ve never quite got kickflip manuals across the whole pad. Still no. Winter sucks.